Granite tiles are available in most of the accepted colours of slabs.
Place a paper mask over your nose and mouth and put on thick work gloves and a pair of safety glasses.2. Begin with a 150-grit stone polishing pad attached to the hand-held stone polisher. In fact, most homeowners with experience laying any type of tile can be successful at installing their own granite tile. One important and different step, however, is polishing the edges of the granite tiles before laying them.
Instructions
1. Choose a flat, level work area outdoors. Cover any surfaces that you wish to protect with tarps or dropcloths.Granite sometimes breaks or is otherwise damaged in transit between the collect end and the processing domicile. When this occurs, it is usually divided into granite tiles. Granite tiles are less expensive than slab granite and are much easier to install.
Attach the first tile to the surface of the work table with a padded pressure clamp. Line up the pad of the polisher with the end of one tile edge.
3. Turn the polisher on at moderate speed. Push the pad against the edge of the granite tile with a medium amount of pressure. Slowly work the polisher back and forth of the edge of the tile until it is smooth; finish the other three edges this way.
4. Polish the remaining tiles, replacing the 150-grit pad with an identical one when it becomes worn. Polish all of the tiles between three and five more times using a progression of finer polishing pads such as 300-grit, 500-grit, 800-grit, 1500-grit or 3000-grit.
